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Title: Congregation after Sunday service, India, ca. 1939
Creator: Early, Charles Gordon
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1939
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "A village congregation leaving the evangelists house after Sunday morning service." Caption from Kingdom Overseas "A Hyderabad village congregation leaving the evangelist's house after a Sunday morning service. In many villages the broad verandah of the evangelist's dwelling is the only sanctuary for Christian worship." Large group of men, women and children outside house. Rev Early served in South India for over sixty years from 1914 until his death in 1975.
The first mission to India was established in Madras [now Tamil Nadu] in 1817.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 14.2 x 21.2 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2387 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-10-20-001-016
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2387
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-10-20-001-016.jpg
Subject: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Early, Charles Gordon, 1889-1975
Group portraits
Indigenous populations
Religious communities
Time Period: circa 1939
Place: Hyderabad
India
Source: SOAS/MMS/INS/1199/001/016 [File]
Relation: (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Kingdom Overseas, 1939
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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